Barclays
Barclays’ RWAs shrank on Q3 tailwinds, but loan failures loom
Decline in loan creditworthiness has added £9.8 billion to RWAs year-to-date
Science friction: some tire of waiting for quantum’s leap
Use cases for new tech are piling up – from CVA to VAR. But so are the obstacles
Which EU banks hold the most loans subject to Covid relief?
UK lender Lloyds had 13% of its loan book under payment moratoria as of June 30
Banks welcome US overhaul of AML rules
Proposals signal shift to risk-based approach to financial crime detection
Libor webinar playback: spotlight on sterling
Panellists from Barclays, HSBC, Intralinks and Morgan Stanley discuss early cessation announcement
Covid credit outlooks for UK banks vary
Standard Chartered and HSBC have worst downside outlooks relative to their own base cases
Barclays led UK banks in growing CDS book through Covid shock
Dealer saw credit derivatives notionals balloon £58.1 billion over the first half
Dealers vie with Markit to electronify bond issuance
Competing platforms could split the market for new issuance in Europe and the US
Barclays proposes new taxonomy for digital tokens
A common approach to classifying tokens is needed to prevent regulatory arbitrage, UK bank argues
Barclays led European banks on derivatives notionals in 2019
Deutsche Bank cut notionals 10% last year
Virus volatility swelled CVA charges at Barclays, NatWest in H1
PRA capital relief for market risk eased the CVA burden at some lenders
FCM client margin ebbed from record highs over Q2
Goldman Sachs was the only FCM to increase swaps margin significantly
FX swaps platform aims to cut out the banks – but not entirely
Peer-to-peer newcomer FX HedgePool targets asset managers’ month-end hedging activity
People moves: Eurex picks Peters as CEO, Citi appoints Italy duo as MSS co-heads, ORX reshuffles board, and more
Latest job changes across the industry
Relief for credit losses buoys Barclays’ capital ratio
IFRS 9 transitional measures added 35bp to CET1 ratio
Transparency vs clarity: the Mifid swaps conundrum
Participants want better OTC transparency, but say Esma’s efforts at clarity could muddy the picture
Common domain model needs infrastructure push, says Barclays
Bank wants market infrastructures to drive adoption of Isda CDM
Mifid’s pre-trade transparency is ‘a failed experiment’
Market participants say benefits of altering pre-trade transparency rules are small
‘Improving’ Mifid post-trade transparency splits markets
Mooted changes to Europe’s transparency regime are dividing markets – largely along functional lines
Foreign banks and Fed at odds on stress test impacts
HSBC North America predicted a loan-loss rate of 2.7%, well below the Fed’s 6% estimate
Systemic European banks’ bail-in buffers fell in Q1
Bail-in debt stocks increase, but balance sheet expansion crimps TLAC ratios
Client margin up 40% at Morgan Stanley’s swaps unit in Q1
Aggregate US FCM margin up a huge $34.8 billion quarter-on-quarter
Greek, Italian banks lead EU on IFRS 9 capital relief
Intesa Sanpaolo saw CET1 capital add-in of €2.6 billion